In the next month or two, we should have our small deployment rolled out. We are replacing a 24-seat PC Windows lab in our dept. with SunRays. Initially, we plan to just have them go straight to uttsc, so they are for all intents and purposes Windows terminals. We are considering using them for dual-boot (Windows/Linux) lab machines for some classes, and distributing individual VMs sounds interesting, but have no immediate plans to implement this. If the lab works out well, we are considering adding our office staff to the pool.
Our campus student/staff IDs have a smart card built in. I'm working through our Sun reps to see if we can get them particular model to work with the SunRays. They are Gemplus, which are largely supported, but a model that hasn't been vetted yet. Our vendor has been great with supplying demo units for us to test before we made our purchase. The biggest issue we had was making USB storage devices cooperate. While the solution we finally came up with is not 100% transparent to the user, it's at least functional. I'm hoping future versions will improve this transparency. Because of the display resolution limit on the SR2, we ended up getting SR2FS instead. We figure this will also give us some headroom with future possible expansion. When our central IT heard we were doing this, they got very interested in them as well for the other public labs on campus. Seth Thomas L. Baca wrote: > A while back, Craig posted to the ThinkThin blog a video showing Georgia > Tech's Sun Ray deployment > (http://blogs.sun.com/ThinkThin/date/20070227). Are there any Georgia > Tech folks on this list? Is there any more information available about > their setup? I'm afraid that I couldn't quite get the whole story from > the video. > > While we're at it, any other .edu types on this list? I expect that > many of us in universities face similar challenges and have to meet many > of the same demands. I'm interested in learning more about how others > are making this stuff work in their university environments. > > cheers, > -tom > -- Seth Galitzer Systems Coordinator Computing and Information Sciences Kansas State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 785-532-7790 _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://node1.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
